your garden bestie

With monthly or ‘on-demand’ coaching sessions, I come to you and take all the guessing out of your kitchen garden.

Following your consult:

Maybe we uncover the need for in-person, hands on, help in your garden. Like selecting plants, planting seeds, transplanting, tending, harvesting, or general maintenance. Whatever your garden needs, I am there.

garden bestie

My job is to help you find joy and peace in your space, picking your own food and connecting with nature every day. I am here to bring your kitchen garden dreams come to life. As a garden coach, I can visit your property on a monthly cadence, or as needed. Schedule your consultation today and let’s get this blossoming friendship started!

 FAQs

  • A kitchen garden is a particular type of garden including edible fruit, vegetables, and herbs. Kitchen gardens, also known as potagers, are relatively small, ranging from 20 to 200 square feet. Generally, these gardens are designed inside of raised garden beds for a clean and beautiful aesthetic.

  • As a self-taught gardener, I wasted years of frustration, money, time, and a lot of plants. While it was necessary for me to dive into this craft, it uncovered a huge need as w collective. We sadly have a large gap of knowledge from our ancestors.

    This gap in gardening knowledge is bridged by professionals like myself. I am here to take the guesswork and frustration out of gardening, allowing you more time to pass down that knowledge to your family, friends, and neighbors so that we can continue to enjoy the fruitful act of gardening for generations to come.

    • Direct visual contact with flowers, green plants, and wood has positive effects on brain activity

    • Seeing leafy plants or fresh flowers generates physiological-relaxation effect

    • Gardening at least 1 to 4 h per week creates emotional regulation, interrelatedness, confidence, positive thinking, and heightened spirituality

    • Improve physical activity, and thus improve dexterity and mobility

    • May improve sleep disorders

    • Stimulates vitamin D synthesis; regulating glucose metabolism, decreasing cardiovascular diseases improving cognitive ability, preventing depression and some types of cancer, osteoporosis, and multiple sclerosis. Observational studies have also identified an association of vitamin D levels with arthritis, chronic pain, and low-back pain

    • Planting, digging, weeding, or consuming home-garden-grown products, including fruits and vegetables, also increases the gut microbiome and induces a higher intake of fiber, iron, selenium, and vitamins C and K

    • Regular gardening, might reduce the risk of dementia by 36% in people over 60 years of age, encouraging positive-mood enhancement in individuals with average-to-advanced levels of disease

    Source

  • This all depends on your garden size. First step is to schedule a consultation to asses your current garden or sketch out where your new garden space will be. Once the design is approved, pricing is calculated based on the growing square footage, divided by how many months remain in the gardening season.

“I like gardening. It’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.”

— Alice Sebold